Rock the Nation World Tour

The Rock The Nation World Tour was a concert tour by the hard rock group Kiss. ZO2 and Poison were the opening bands. The tour marked the return of Eric Singer on the drums, who once again replaced Peter Criss, whose contract was not renewed by Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley. While attendance was not what the previous tour had been, it still averaged 8,900 on the American leg of the tour while grossing $20 million. Kiss would not tour in 2005 due to Paul Stanley's hip replacement.

Rock The Nation World Tour
Tour by Kiss
Start dateMay 8, 2004
End dateAugust 17, 2004
Legs2
No. of shows59
Kiss concert chronology

During this tour, the setlist was not as 1970s-exclusive as it had been on their last few tours, as Kiss played songs that spanned their entire career. This also included performing a few selections from their non-makeup era, songs the band have generally shied away from playing since returning to wearing their make-up in 1996. After this tour, however, most of those songs would again be shelved and to date, with the exception of "God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II" and "Lick it Up", they have not reappeared. The band released a two-disc DVD of this tour.

In the tour program for the band's final tour, Thayer reflected on the tour:

The unique thing about Eric and I is that we are tried and true Kiss fans from day one. We've told each other stories about how we've seen Kiss performing back in the '70s and we were in our respective towns where we grew up, sitting in the front row and going crazy and watching this amazing band play. So we have that in our blood to begin with. With that in mind our ability to come in and be a part of this band is a very natural thing. It's in our blood and it's been inside of us for years. Since we did grow up with Kiss, for us to come in and be in this band now is a very natural transition. So coming from the place of being the guy who was there in 1974 watching Kiss play the Paramount Theater in Portland, Oregon, if somebody back then somebody told me in 20 or 30 years that I'd be that guy up on stage playing the guitar, I'd be the one up there in makeup and costumes, I'd never believed that something like that could have been possible.[1]

Setlist
  1. "Deuce"
  2. "Strutter"
  3. "Love Gun"
  4. "Makin' Love"
  5. "Lick It Up"
  6. "Parasite"
  7. "Got to Choose"
  8. "War Machine"
  9. "Christine Sixteen"
  10. "She"
  11. "I Want You"
  12. "I Love It Loud"
  13. "100,000 Years"
  14. "Unholy"
  15. "Shout It Out Loud"
  16. "I Was Made for Lovin You"
  17. "Detroit Rock City"
  18. "God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You II"
  19. "Rock and Roll All Nite"

Tour dates

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Date City Country Venue
Australia
May 8, 2004 Perth Australia WACA Ground
May 11, 2004 Adelaide Adelaide Entertainment Centre
May 13, 2004 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena
May 14, 2004
May 15, 2004 Palais Theatre
May 17, 2004 Sydney Sydney Superdome
May 18, 2004 Enmore Theatre
May 20, 2004 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Asia
May 27, 2004 Tokyo Japan Nippon Budokan
May 28, 2004
May 29, 2004
May 31, 2004 Osaka Osaka Castle Hall
June 2, 2004 Nagoya Nagoya Rainbow Hall
June 3, 2004 Kanazawa Ishikawa Sangyo Hall
North America
June 10, 2004 Selma, Texas United States Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
June 11, 2004 Dallas, Texas Smirnoff Music Centre
June 12, 2004 The Woodlands, Texas Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
June 15, 2004 Greenwood Village, Colorado Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre
June 16, 2004 Albuquerque, New Mexico Journal Pavilion
June 18, 2004 Phoenix, Arizona Cricket Pavilion
June 19, 2004 Irvine, California Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
June 20, 2004 Concord, California Chronicle Pavilion
June 22, 2004 Ridgefield, Washington The Amphitheatre at Clark County
June 26, 2004 Somerset, Wisconsin Float Rite Park Amphitheatre
June 27, 2004 Bonner Springs, Kansas Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
June 28, 2004 Maryland Heights, Missouri UMB Bank Pavilion
June 30, 2004 Clarkston, Michigan DTE Energy Music Theatre
July 2, 2004 Antioch, Tennessee Starwood Amphitheatre
July 3, 2004 Noblesville, Indiana Verizon Wireless Music Center
July 4, 2004 Burgettstown, Pennsylvania Post-Gazette Pavilion
July 6, 2004 Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Blossom Music Center
July 7, 2004 Milwaukee, Wisconsin Marcus Amphitheater
July 9, 2004 Tinley Park, Illinois Tweeter Center
July 10, 2004 Columbus, Ohio Germain Amphitheater
July 11, 2004 Cincinnati, Ohio Riverbend Music Center
July 13, 2004 Camden, New Jersey Tweeter Center at the Waterfront
July 14, 2004 Darien, New York Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
July 16, 2004 Mansfield, Massachusetts Tweeter Center
July 17, 2004 Atlantic City, New Jersey Trump Taj Mahal
July 18, 2004 Hershey, Pennsylvania Hersheypark Stadium
July 20, 2004 Holmdel, New Jersey PNC Bank Arts Center
July 21, 2004 Wantagh, New York Tommy Hilfiger at Jones Beach Theater
July 23, 2004 Scranton, Pennsylvania Ford Pavilion
July 24, 2004 Bristow, Virginia Nissan Pavilion
July 25, 2004 Virginia Beach, Virginia Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
July 27, 2004 Raleigh, North Carolina Alltel Pavilion
July 28, 2004 Charlotte, North Carolina Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
July 30, 2004 West Palm Beach, Florida Sound Advice Amphitheatre
August 3, 2004 Pelham, Alabama Verizon Wireless Music Center
August 4, 2004 Atlanta, Georgia HiFi Buys Amphitheatre
August 6, 2004 Memphis, Tennessee Pyramid Arena
August 7, 2004 New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans Arena
August 8, 2004 Little Rock, Arkansas Alltel Arena
August 10, 2004 Bossier City, Louisiana CenturyTel Center
August 12, 2004 Laredo, Texas Laredo Entertainment Center
August 13, 2004 Hidalgo, Texas Dodge Arena
August 14, 2004 Monterrey Mexico Arena Monterrey
August 15, 2004
August 17, 2004 Mexico City Palacio de los Deportes

Cancelled shows
gollark: Er, no-one, not nobody.
gollark: NOBODY can comb MY hair.
gollark: brb, replacing my hair with extremely small bombs.
gollark: Airport security would be marginally better if they at least had EXPLANATIONS for things.
gollark: What if the clothes are BOMBS?

References
  1. (2019). End of the Road World Tour Program, pg. 35.
  2. The KISSFAQ - KISS Tourdates Archive - 2004
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